doggedly
/ˈdɔɡədli/
"doggedly" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“doggedly” is an uncommon English word, ranked #60,771 in English word frequency and used as an adverb.
- #60,771
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - In a way that is stubbornly persistent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doggedly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /ˈdɔɡədli/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “doggedly” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for doggedly is 8 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈdɔɡədli/. Corpus data places it at rank #60,771 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
doggedly doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English doggedlich, doggetly, doggidly, doggydly; equivalent to dogged + -ly. The correct English form is doggedly, spelled D-O-G-G-E-D-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a way that is stubbornly persistent.
- 2sullenly, gloomily
Etymology
From Middle English doggedlich, doggetly, doggidly, doggydly; equivalent to dogged + -ly.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “doggedly”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-O-G-G-E-D-L-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈdɔɡədli/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.